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Summary: Congrats Sophia!
Review: I don't know what's up with some of these reviewers, but this was a terrific movie. It was happy, it was sad, it was pretty damn funny too. Someone said the characters are mean...well, people are mean. It doesn't portray anything fantastical, just some lonely people stuck in Tokyo making friends.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: This is movie is great, but very understated. If you read some glowing reviews and then expect it to sweep you off your feet, you might wonder what the fuss was about. I spent the first several minutes wondering if the movie was going to get moving, but then it slowly enveloped me. See it with an open mind, and patience.A lot of people have commented that the Japanese are being mocked and so the film is being racist. As a regular Japan-o-phile myself, I was a little uncomfortable at first, but when the movie started making sense to me, I saw it more as a depiction of the lead characters' mild culture shock than anything else. In other words, we're seeing Tokyo through their eyes, for what it means to them. I think the humor is innocent. And it is hilarious too.
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Summary: Not His Best Work
Review: I've never seen Murray in a film that was as poorly suited to his talent, perhaps because he is so comfortable with comedy. This sad movie was made sadder by the parody of the wasteful days people will spend trying to make money. His noble gestures with the young wife were somewhat unbelievable, and were made all the more admirable because of it. Both of their efforts to prevent getting together, however, left the viewer all the more interested in seeing that happen, since it appeared to be what might have made both of them feel connected to life. Although the sources of their anxiety was different, both suffered from the detachment that people often feel when they seek each other out in territory that is not quite familiar to them. It's sweet that they were able to become friends, but the audience wanted more. Had Murray used his energy (that wasn't displayed) to enjoy her company, and teach her to enjoy herself without having sex, it might have been the solution to the despair they both felt trapped in the situations they perceived, probably accurately, they were in. Obviously, as the more experienced person, that would have been more appropriate for Mr. Murray than for the inexperienced young woman. It surely wouldn't be realistic to have to come from her since she was not in the "preferential position" he had on location; besides, older men should expect to lead in such a situation, rather than to be "entertained." Elders generally have the responsibility for setting both the pace and the level of appropriate engagement. While he did tackle that problem, it was not without prompting, and considerable reservation on his part, almost as if it was so little value to him that it wasn't worth his time or effort. This is not exactly the ideal method of retaining "fan power" although she exhibited that initially until he came so morose that they were left with nothing more than peripheral observations that substituted for connection. Murray is capable of more, and has in the past given more to his artwork. Perhaps the right film hasn't come along, or perhaps he was somewhat burned out, as in jet lag. It was a disappointing performance, but could have been attributed to the strange "twists" of the film, a new female director's first try, I heard. That't too bad.
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Summary: Beware of the hype
Review: A near miss that has been sold with loads of hype. Bill Murray does some good work but it is really nothing that he has not done before. The depictions of some of the characters have a meanness to them that will put me off from watching it again let alone owning a copy of it. I feel that a second viewing would not be entertaining. R.E. and his peers must must have seen some other cut of this movie.
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Summary: The reviews of this movie are the only thing intellectual.
Review: It was so bad. I am worried that somebody reading this might think there was a worse movie made than this in 2003, so I am choosing my words carefully. First, I suggest people who want to make a living writing, directing or producing movies to avoid this so it doesn't in any way influence the way you judge what is considered creative. I am convinced the movie was filmed in one day and the rest of the money that was supposed to go toward making it was stolen. This movie did more to undermine the credibility of the Academy than "The Crying Game". I feel that the Oscar nomination is now firmly an economic device that has abandoned all sense of artistic merit. All because of this movie. I don't understand why so many individuals give this movie 5 stars while at the same time pointing out that this movie could understandably bore the hell out of someone. This movie would make a good public service announcement as to what it is really like to suffer with depression because the experience was depressing, and not in an entertaining way. This movie was also very racist to the Japanese. I am embarrassed that this was given an Oscar nomination and profoundly apologize to the nation of Japan as a whole.
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Summary: Some May Need A Translator.
Review: So the film was a slice of life. It was intense. It was well done. And it didn't involve the old guy eventually sleeping with the young girl. Is that what you expected? What you were hoping for in your sordid Hollywood fantasy induced world? Grow up! This film depicted two lonely people in an unfamiliar environment who find this connection that works in translation, but would never hold up in the real world. Did you really expect him to ditch his wife and his kids to stay in Japan with a girl whose husband was due back any minute? The chemistry was there despite the age difference. She would have been responsive if he had made the move. They certainly seemed to have more in common than they did with either of their spouses. But that ain't how life works, buttercup! Sometimes people do the right (and...gasp...unselfish) thing. Sometimes people don't grind out a few minutes of pleasure that may wreck the things they have worked for all of their lives. Sometimes, at the end of the day, two people who want each other madly get to go home to seperate lives, even though it comes close to killing them. Sometimes love is unrequited. And Sophia, Bill and Scarlett show us here that it can still be a beautiful and satisfying thing. These two people get what they need from this experience, heartbreak or no. If you didn't get what you needed from the experience of watching it, some day you may, after a few more trips around the block. And you may want to lay off the Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts love stories in the meantime. It may thrill your heart at the theater but when you reenact the concepts with Fred, the copy guy, at work, or Pam, the Denny's waitress, don't expect your signifigant other to roll over without a fight (or one heck of a divorce settlement).
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Summary: Disappointing to say the least
Review: I had heard good reviews of this Oscar award winner and then sat down to watch it. For the entire length of the movie I waited for something to happen in this movie, and was never satisfied. If anyone wants to buy it off me...
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Summary: An extraordinarily beautiful, subtle, work
Review: Fifty years from now or so, we will still be discussing "Lost in Translation". It is a movie that is not about 'nothing' but a film with the stillness of everyday life at its center. The performances are so finely nuanced that they no longer seem like "Acting" as the movie barely seems to be "Directed"; the transparency that is achieved by this work of artistic creation will grow as the years pass by - as we strive, in contrast, fifty years from now, to remember the name of this year's oscar-winning director whose amalgam of sound and fury signify, ultimately, nothing.
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Summary: Liked it
Review: Yes i liked this movie. And bill murray did a decent job.
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Summary: not too bad
Review: For the people who gives this movie 1 star are bringing this movie down. I mean the movie wasn't that bad and i will admit that some parts of the movie is boring. But still the movie is good.
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